Meertens Institute

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Meertens Institute

Meertens Instituut (2016)
Founder(s)	P.J. Meertens
Established	1930
Focus	Linguistic and cultural diversity in the Netherlands
Interim Director	Inger Leemans
Location	Amsterdam , Netherlands
Website	www.meertens.knaw.nl/cms/en/

The Meertens Institute (Dutch Meertens Instituut) in Amsterdam is a research institute which studies and documents language and culture in the Netherlands as well as Dutch language and culture throughout the world. The institute is part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen or KNAW).

Its two departments are Ethnology and oral culture, which studies and documents culture of everyday life in the Netherlands from an international, comparative, and historical perspective, and Language variation, which studies and documents language, language variation and language change in the Netherlands, as well as Dutch languages in the world.